Psycho Papa Joe wrote:My dad would agree with me that Quebec's economy would go to shit if it seperated from Canada.

Every economic studies made on the subject have been saying the contrary. I know it's one of the platitudes repeated over and over as a fear tactics but nothing indicates Quebec economy would go to shit.

Mustafa wrote:Every economic studies made on the subject have been saying the contrary. I know it's one of the platitudes repeated over and over as a fear tactics but nothing indicates Quebec economy would go to shit.

I'd like to see a totally independent study on this. Because our Economy is shit right now. And with the corruption allegations boom that we've witnessed in the last couple years, I don't exactly have much faith that it would be any different (if not worse) shall Quebec one day become a country.

I really think we should consider a different approach twards independance. Since OUI is losing ground in Quebec we should basically try to convince the rest of Canada to kick us out. It's our last option at this point in time.

Mustafa wrote:Every economic studies made on the subject have been saying the contrary. I know it's one of the platitudes repeated over and over as a fear tactics but nothing indicates Quebec economy would go to shit.

I'd love to read the list of assumptions made in such studies and who paid them to write those studies.

I've dealt with economists many times in my line of work. Really amazing how their conclusions can differ based on who's paying them.

Slick Nick wrote:I really think we should consider a different approach twards independance. Since OUI is losing ground in Quebec we should basically try to convince the rest of Canada to kick us out. It's our last option at this point in time.

Slick Nick wrote:I really think we should consider a different approach twards independance. Since OUI is losing ground in Quebec we should basically try to convince the rest of Canada to kick us out. It's our last option at this point in time.

We should trade Quebec with Haiti. You guys get a tropical paradise, we in turn take the Haitians and place them in Quebec city. We build a wall around it and wait for them to die out. This should occur within a winter or two.

Dog wrote:But what's actually happening is that Scotland (which is poorer than the UK as a whole) will vote no and Catalonia (which is richer than Spain as a whole) would have voted yes if they would have been allowed to vote. Quebec falls into the Scottish category. Also, notice how clean the Scottish referendum is compared to Quebec (pre agreed to process and question).

Quebec remains heavily nationalist. Make it richer than Canada as a whole and support for sovereignty would be very high.

Vote Caq!

The CAQ plan is closer to what i'd like than the retarded membership of the PQ. If Quebec was paying dividends to the RoC even West-Islanders would be separatists. We'll see where the oil takes us.

Is Belgium a shithole? I've never been, but I've always been under the impression they were in the top tier of not being shit. I mean if they're below the shit threshold, how many non-shitholes are there in the world? 8 or 9?

Craig wrote:Is Belgium a shithole? I've never been, but I've always been under the impression they were in the top tier of not being shit. I mean if they're below the shit threshold, how many non-shitholes are there in the world? 8 or 9?

I think they're a shithole in comparison to their neibours. Sort of like having the crappiest house in a very nice neibourhood. But if you moved them to say, Central America, they'd be the mansion on the hill.

Craig wrote:Is Belgium a shithole? I've never been, but I've always been under the impression they were in the top tier of not being shit. I mean if they're below the shit threshold, how many non-shitholes are there in the world? 8 or 9?

Shithole no, but they're closer to France than to Switzerland in terms of.. uhhmm.. everything.